Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&browse=true&N=3+7496&No=20 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609069 Tristan Sadler, a gay soldier, recalls his time spent fighting in World War I and the intensity of his friendship with Will Bancroft, a soldier who became a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1385149 The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young, white, working-class woman. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality, an illness her sisters refer to as the dreaded bowel disease, and the conflicts created by the growing disparity between her desires and her Catholic upbringing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222332 When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where hes tortured, molested, and put through a straight rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his own or worse. But life inside the safe house is never entirely safe, as Ahmed, now known as Ben, learns to his sorrow just as he begins to let his guard down. -- Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391146 As she prepares to marry Brandon Redding, sexy debutante Lena Jamerson cannot stop thinking about her beautiful roommate, Denise, while Denise tries to mend her broken heart, Cooley tries to win back Misha and Carmen tries to get past her fears to find happiness with Nic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1422746 Caring for an injured friend, restaurateur Jane Lawless discovers that her friend has been harboring a secret fear about a tragic accident that occurred years earlier and involves a suspicious reporter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262724 Zoe Baxter has spent 10 years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away her unborn baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. Includes a CD of original songs created especially for this novel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477857 It begins as a simple missing persons case--a young MMA fighters mother has mysteriously disappeared. But as New Orleans private eye Chanse MacLeod starts digging around, he discovers that she is the leader of a group fighting the powerful Archdiocese of New Orleans over the closing of two churches. As the trail leads from corrupt church officials to powerful real estate developers to the world of cage fighting, Chanse soon realizes there are a lot of powerful people who want to make sure she stays gone--and dont have a problem with getting rid of a pesky gay private eye--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1368958 Nicholas van der Swart has always known he is different. Unable to live up to the expectations his family, his heritage and his culture have of him, he grows increasingly diffident and introverted. When, at the age of 19, he is conscripted into the South African army, he enters a world that is utterly at odds with his every sensibility. Here, he will face the scorn and violence of his tormenters, but will also find the strength to survive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1276576 The Saints victory in the Super Bowl just prior to the start of Carnival season has everyone in New Orleans floating on Cloud Nine. But for Scotty Bradley, Carnival looks like its going to be grim yet again when his estranged cousin Jared--who plays for the Saints--becomes the number one suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, dethroned former Miss Louisiana Tara Bourgeouis. Scottys not entirely convinced his cousin isnt the killer, but when he starts digging around into the homophobic beauty queens sordid life, he finds that any number of people wanted her dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453453 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1558344 Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the youth culture of Manhattan, Chulito is a coming-of-age. coming out love story of a sexy Latino man and the colorful characters that populate his block. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1361896 Ethan Poe, sixteen and gay, struggles for balance while his life conspires to pull him in many different directions. His parents are divorcing; his older brother Kyle is damaging his right hand in the name of purity; his best friend is a Jesus freak who prays for him to be straight; hes desperate to get his drivers license, but he cant seem to get enough supervised driving time. Hes just starting to see light in the form of Max Modine, a boy he wants to know much better than he does, when his rural Maine town begins to explode around him. Against his intentions he gets pulled into a pitched and sometimes violent conflict about whether to introduce Intelligent Design into science classrooms. Friendships end, families are torn apart, and the school becomes a battleground. Always seeking elusive balance, Ethan finds his way through a maze of lost friends, new love, and the mysteries of tattoos and power animals, with help from quarters where he never expected to find it. And he gains something better than balance.--from authors website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1283748 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215506 Renee Matthews is starting over. Free of a demanding ex-husband who left her feeling worthless, shes ready for a purely physical connection, on her terms... --P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252414 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1161393 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1198507 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1250173 The intrepid Jane Lawless tackles a personally complicated case when her ex-husband returns to Minneapolis and wakes up next to the dead body of an art collector. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715652 Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubais spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for fabulous men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Quant risks his life as he wades further and further into the shadows cast by the desert sun. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303145 When financial challenges compel the worlds most elite modeling agency to supply models for a celebrity gala, owners Bentley and Alexandra are forced to send Bentleys protege, a young man who falls in love with a married A-list actor who is publicly hiding the truth about his sexuality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1192808 An earthquake didnt break them. Old demons only tested and deepened their commitment. Even a toddler couldnt tear them apart. Now Anna and Lily Kaklis have decided on a new adventure: adding to their family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116696 When a car accident leaves forty-year-old Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the Vermont home where he grew up as be begins the long recuperation. A burgeoning relationship with the twenty-year-old son of Burkes high school best friend draws him out of himself and into the community he left behind. Exploring local history, he discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fiance. With the help of librarian Sam Guffrey, he begins to research a 125-year-old mystery that seems to be reaching into the present day. The more Burke delves into the past, the more hes forced to confront the person he has become: the choices he made and those he avoided, his ideas of what it takes to be a successful gay man, his feelings about his mothers death, and the suppressed tension that simmers between himself and his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1173834 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088407 To clear his arrest record, Andy Nocera must complete one year of therapy without another arrest, which forces him to deal with his repeated failure to live as an openly gay man, and gives him an opportunity to rescue another lost soul. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272507 When financial challenges compel the worlds most elite modeling agency to supply models for a celebrity gala, owners Bentley and Alexandra are forced to send Bentleys protg, a young man who falls in love with a married A-list actor who is publicly hiding the truth about his sexuality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295022 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059713 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020957 Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid, has built a life of quiet respectability as a doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064978 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=941718 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298837 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301688 Taking a seemingly easy job in her first case as a fledgling private investigator, Jane Lawless attempts to track down the missing father of client Annie Andrews, a successful effort with unanticipated consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024258 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538444 Victor Decimus has been a vampire for over 2,000 years. Once a Roman Legionnaire, for millennia Victor has remained a step or two ahead of rivals, would-be executioners, and the mysterious Dark Kingdom, which sets the rules for vampires existence. Having left New York and his lover Paul Lewis - the vampire he made then abandoned to escape the vengeance of the Dark Kingdom, Victor sets himself up again - with his thrall - in New Orleans. But in New Orleans, his thrall becomes the point of a new, larger conflict. On the one hand, a local priest seeks to break Victors hold over the thrall; on the other, the Dark Kingdom fears that Victor is going to become a Vampire Maker - one who continually creates new vampires, while refusing to take his place on the next plain of existence and thus creating an imbalance in the powers of the universe. And between both walks Victor, determined to have his own way, exerts control and remains defiant to the end.--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014743 After twenty years together, Robbie and Carlo are beginning to see their architectural practice and their marriage falter. When a peculiar young man drifts into their storefront office claiming he has car trouble, Robbie invites him home for dinner. After the stranger has had too much to drink, the two men insist he sleep in their guest room, but during the night the stranger commits an act of violence which shatters the architects ordered lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=939465 A successful but lonely man reconnects with a long-lost stepdaughter and her newly widowed mother and finds his life turned upside down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=887913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252194 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=942383 A successful but lonely man reconnects with a long-lost stepdaughter and her newly widowed mother and finds his life turned upside down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009882 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993671 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988500 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959943 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836769 Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=776547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=823985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721948 Sile is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant whos traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Judes and Siles worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043632 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840053 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=986183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003893 Killian Kendall is used to being overlooked, even in his own family. Thats about to change. With the arrival of a new kid at school, Killians whole world is about to be turned upside down. The new guy is openly gay and, for reasons he cant really understand, Killian finds himself drawn to him. When the boy is killed in a brutal attack, and Killian is injured in the process, Killian begins to question everything around him--P. 4 of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728221 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988502 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003888 Wills life is changing so quickly he cant keep up, although hes learning a lot about himself in the process. Then his best friend dies in what appears to be a drunken accident, but Will receives a note hinting that it may be something more. With the help of Killian Kendall, he begins an investigation that results in even more death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692691 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988504 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692695 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003894 When twenty year old Dennis Eastman arrives in Los Angeles to spend a month with his old mentor and lover Lincoln Gardner, he is confronted by the police who tell him that Gardner has been brutally murdered. Eastman must search for vindication through the sleazy underground bars and gay nightclubs of Southern California. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1273003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731462 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=667508 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=674479 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741465 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=675614 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=659734 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642023 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623479 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631706 Seeking a role model who will help him rise from a lackluster life primarily marked by compulsive cleaning binges and online sex, Boston realtor William Collins begins observing a wealthy suburbanite couple searching for a perfect apartment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298129 Chauncey Greer, the bisexual owner of a thriving card company in Atlanta, is inspired to pursue his old dream of a musical career, a career that had ended in scandal thanks to a teenage love affair with his fellow bandmate in a popular boy band. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648433 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653686 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673630 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673603 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=638137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648443 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631708 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=743984 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=670185 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741470 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=700499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=727737